HUMAN DIGNITY IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS:

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Laura Kittel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Universal Declaration

Part III Structural Principles, Ch.14 Human Dignity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carozza Paolo G
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Structural Principles ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Right ◽  
International Instruments

This article examines the issue of human dignity in relation to human rights. It analyses the functions and principle of human dignity and its use in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international instruments. It suggests that human dignity seems to help justify expansive interpretations of human rights and strengthens the centrality and importance of the right in question and limiting possible exceptions or limitations to that right. This article also contends that the difficulty of reaching greater consensus on the meaning and implications of human dignity in international human rights law may be attributed to the fact that it refers to both a foundational premise of human rights and to a principle that affect interpretation and application of specific human rights.

scholarly journals Human dignity and religious freedom in the context of post-secular dialogue

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 66-69
Author(s):  
Tetyana Prodan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Past

Over the past few years, especially after the events of EuroMaydan, called the Revolution of Dignity. the issue of human dignity is actively discussed in various socio-cultural contexts. In modern scientific discourse, the issue of human dignity is embodied in numerous concepts on the brink of law, ethics, religion and politics. A turning point in the understanding and meaning of human dignity as an egalitarian concept was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), as a consequence of the terrible historical experience after two world wars.

Dignity

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-160
Author(s):  
William A. Schabas
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Right

Human dignity is not necessarily treated as a human right per se, but it may describe in particular several of the most fundamental rights that concern physical and psychological integrity: the right to life, the prohibition of torture and ill treatment, the prohibition of slavery and servitude, the right to liberty and security, and the recognition as a person before the law. Within these rubrics, some quite specific issues are addressed including the resort to capital punishment and other extreme penalties, the criminalisation of genocide, and the imposition of medical treatment. The references to dignity in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights appear to make up for the absence of any recognition of a supreme being,

Art.28 Adequate Standard of Living and Social Protection

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cremin Kevin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The Right

This chapter examines Article 28 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which deals with the rights that persons with disabilities have to an adequate standard of living and to social protection. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights both recognize the right to an adequate standard of living. Similarly, Article 23 of the UDHR recognizes ‘the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection’. Evidence indicates, however, that these rights have not been effectively implemented for persons with disabilities. Article 28 aims to combat this injustice.

Human rights without human supremacism

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 763-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Kymlicka
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
Embodied Subjectivity

AbstractEarly defenders of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights invoked species hierarchy: human beings are owed rights because of our discontinuity with and superiority to animals. Subsequent defenders avoided species supremacism, appealing instead to conditions of embodied subjectivity and corporeal vulnerability we share with animals. In the past decade, however, supremacism has returned in work of the new ‘dignitarians’ who argue that human rights are grounded in dignity, and that human dignity requires according humans a higher status than animals. Against the dignitarians, I argue that defending human rights on the backs of animals is philosophically suspect and politically self-defeating.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEMS OF HUMAN DIGNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF BIOETHICS

wisdom ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Tatevik Pirumyan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Nuremberg Code ◽  
Declaration Of Helsinki ◽  
International Conventions ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Declaration Of Geneva

The article presents an analysis of the principles of human dignity and human rights from the viewpoint of bioethics, describes the development and modifications of the concepts of “human dignity” and “human rights” in different historical stages. The main purpose of the article’s detailed observation is a complete and true perception of the problems of human dignity and human rights in the contemporary globalized world. To implement the above-mentioned aim, the paper deals with different international conventions and declarations: Convention for the Protection of Human and Dignity of the human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention of Human Rights and Biomedicine, European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights and Biomedicine: The Oviedo Convention and its Protocols, The Nuremberg Code, The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, WMA Declaration of Geneva, WMA Declaration of Helsinki and WMA Declaration of Lisbon on the rights of the patient.

scholarly journals Dignity of the person in the light of international biomedical law

2005 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Andorno
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Genome ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
The Individual

L’emergente diritto internazionale della biomedicina adotta la nozione di dignità umana come principio fondamentale che deve guidare ogni attività biomedica. La Dichiarazione universale sul genoma umano e i diritti umani dell’UNESCO è il migliore esempio di questo fenomeno. Lo scopo di quest’articolo è quello di presentare le due dimensioni della dignità umana contenute nella Dichiarazione UNESCO: la dignità dell’individuo e la dignità dell’umanità. ---------- The emerging international biomedical law adopts the notion of human dignity as the fundamental principle that should guide every biomedical practice. The UNESCO Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights is the best example of this phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to present the two dimensions of human dignity that are covered by the UNESCO Declaration: the dignity of the individual and the dignity of humanity.

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